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crumbling infrastructure will screw the country
A recent version of the Department of Homeland Security’s National Risk Profile found that old and deteriorating infrastructure in the U.S. could pose significant risks to the nation and its economy. According to the profile’s findings, insufficient funding for inspection and maintenance of critical infrastructure throughout the U.S. could create wide-ranging problems as the nation’s infrastructure continues to age.
The National Risk Profile is an annual report produced by the DHS Homeland Infrastructure Threat and Risk Analysis Center detailing current threats to U.S. critical infrastructure. It is disseminated on a restricted basis to security professionals and infrastructure providers, which prevents the public from accessing its contents. However, the draft version of the 2011 National Risk Profile was posted online during the comment phase by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, providing the only publicly-available glimpse of the report’s contents and structure.
The National Risk Profile is an annual report produced by the DHS Homeland Infrastructure Threat and Risk Analysis Center detailing current threats to U.S. critical infrastructure. It is disseminated on a restricted basis to security professionals and infrastructure providers, which prevents the public from accessing its contents. However, the draft version of the 2011 National Risk Profile was posted online during the comment phase by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, providing the only publicly-available glimpse of the report’s contents and structure.
http://publicintelligence.net/dhs-national-risk-profile-aging-infrastructure/
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I hate them.
we all know what happens to anything not properly maintained (body, car, house, etc) 
... is a National Security risk. 
created by a fourth rate novelist sociopath.
will be owned by plutocrats on the public dime.
Budget crisis, war crisis, moral crisis, weather crisis, whatever the public will swallow is sold by media, churches, NGOs and 'non-profits' to let them step in and take over. Ending oversight or accountability to taxpayers or a philosophy of equality for all, because it's in the hands of the sacred private sector.
MI is a prime example, but they are not the only state being destroyed this way. Not by far. It's been going on for years, hidden by a government which has been hallowed by mantras against taxes. Grover Nordquist acolytes in all states push for cutting funding to infrastructure.
Then the corporate backers who paid to get signatures to put the initiatives forward, dressed up in populist rhetoric, swoop into state legislatures and only allow toll roads and bridges, privately owned sports arenas, charter schools, social service agencies to be funded. It's still under the guise and with the force of law and authority granted to the government approved because it represented everyone. It has no other legitimacy, but the public has been put to sleep by libertarian magical thinking into surrendering the Commons.
The defunding of maintenance of roads, bridges, hospitals, schools, fire departments and not funding courts, police, labor and environmental regulatory agencies go along with a well funded effort to demonize all public workers in any way. Any fault is magnified a thousand fold while what good they do is left unsaid or characterized as entrenched self-interest, statism, corrupt unions, authoritarian or nanny state measures.
So easy to fall into all the propganda and feel that one is part of something trendy and new and the wave of the future. But it's the wave of the past, turning egalitarian institutions over to corporations, churches and global business where discrimination will be the law.
We are not being taught the history of the progressive movements of the past, nor the reason for the civil rights movements. The presentation of these less powerful groups in society is said to be equal to the monied groups, when it is not, and never will be. It is class warfare from the top down, but moreso from the bottom up. Select groups of people do make a living off of all of these actions, and will never stop pushing it.
And what better way to divide and rule than to destroy the infrastructure of the nation. How many millions of acres of parkland, beaches, forests and others are being taken away, to herd us into accepting less.
Yes, let that bridge fall down. Don't allow people to rebuild unless it enriches a plutocrat. In the meantime as schools belong to them and public safety is shut down, the people will be forced to deal with their old masters. Those who stand by and cheer the death of government for whatever reason, will either control the fiefdoms or slaves on the land they no longer own.
(Still cranky today.)
Budget crisis, war crisis, moral crisis, weather crisis, whatever the public will swallow is sold by media, churches, NGOs and 'non-profits' to let them step in and take over. Ending oversight or accountability to taxpayers or a philosophy of equality for all, because it's in the hands of the sacred private sector.
MI is a prime example, but they are not the only state being destroyed this way. Not by far. It's been going on for years, hidden by a government which has been hallowed by mantras against taxes. Grover Nordquist acolytes in all states push for cutting funding to infrastructure.
Then the corporate backers who paid to get signatures to put the initiatives forward, dressed up in populist rhetoric, swoop into state legislatures and only allow toll roads and bridges, privately owned sports arenas, charter schools, social service agencies to be funded. It's still under the guise and with the force of law and authority granted to the government approved because it represented everyone. It has no other legitimacy, but the public has been put to sleep by libertarian magical thinking into surrendering the Commons.
The defunding of maintenance of roads, bridges, hospitals, schools, fire departments and not funding courts, police, labor and environmental regulatory agencies go along with a well funded effort to demonize all public workers in any way. Any fault is magnified a thousand fold while what good they do is left unsaid or characterized as entrenched self-interest, statism, corrupt unions, authoritarian or nanny state measures.
So easy to fall into all the propganda and feel that one is part of something trendy and new and the wave of the future. But it's the wave of the past, turning egalitarian institutions over to corporations, churches and global business where discrimination will be the law.
We are not being taught the history of the progressive movements of the past, nor the reason for the civil rights movements. The presentation of these less powerful groups in society is said to be equal to the monied groups, when it is not, and never will be. It is class warfare from the top down, but moreso from the bottom up. Select groups of people do make a living off of all of these actions, and will never stop pushing it.
And what better way to divide and rule than to destroy the infrastructure of the nation. How many millions of acres of parkland, beaches, forests and others are being taken away, to herd us into accepting less.
Yes, let that bridge fall down. Don't allow people to rebuild unless it enriches a plutocrat. In the meantime as schools belong to them and public safety is shut down, the people will be forced to deal with their old masters. Those who stand by and cheer the death of government for whatever reason, will either control the fiefdoms or slaves on the land they no longer own.
(Still cranky today.)
